This is an analysis of the poem Earth And Man that begins with:

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On her great venture, Man,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bccb X dccd X defX X cggX a hiiX a jdXj X kiik X ehhe X caac d icci a hcch X hllh X haah X ejjf X djjd X jbbj X jhhj X cmmc X immi X jXnh X jooj X hpph X jnnX X hbbh X hhhh X jbbj X deed X ejXe X jXfj X jhhj X hcch X kiik X oaao X ljjl X hggh X jllj X j
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 101101 1101010101 1001010101 1101 1 111101 1100110101 0101111101 0101 1 110001 0100010011 11111100010 0110 1 010101 0100010101 0101011111 11100 1 110111 0101000101 1100110101 1110 1 110101 0111011111 0111110101 1101 1 110111 0101101111 1001110101 0101 1 110101 1100010011 01100100101 0101 1 011101 0110010001 1001100011 0101 1 101101 1001011101 11010000101 0111 1 1101010 11100100101 1111111001 11010 1 0101001 01000100011 0101010101 0101 1 010011 111000001101 11001000001 0111 1 111001 1101111101 1100110101 10010 1 111001 1111011001 11010000101 0101 1 01011111 1110110011 1101010001 0101 1 101100 1110010101 1111000101 1111 1 110101 0101010101 1111010100 1001 1 010101 1101110001 1001010101 0101 1 110101 01000100111 1111010101 1101 1 111101 1101010111 0101010001 1001 1 010011 0101100101 1100010101 01011 1 010101 11011101001 1010010001 1111 1 111111 11010000111 1111010101 1101 1 110101 1101010011 1100110101 01010 1 111101 1011010101 0101010111 1101 1 110110 1100110111 1101010101 1111 1 111111 0100011101 01111001000 0011 1 010111 0101010001 0101000100 1101 1 111111 1101111111 1010000111 0101 1 1001011 1100110011 1111000101 0111 1 110001 1011110101 1101010101 01001 1 011001 11001000001 0111010011 0101 1 110101 1101001101 11110100001 1110 1 111011 101010001001 0101010101 0101 1 110001 0100010111 0101010101 0111 1 110001 011100011001 11011110001 11100 1 110101 0101010101 10111111010 0101 1 111101 1001100101 1101000100 1111 1 0100001 10101000111 01010101001 0101 1 011011 11010101100 11010100001 0111 1 101111 1101010111 0101010101 0101 1 101111 10010101111 11110101100 1101 1 111101 0100110111 1100110101 1101
  • Amount of stanzas: 88
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 68
  • Average number of words per stanza: 13
  • Amount of lines: 220
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, his, she, to, through, some, for, he, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words she, her, he, through, some, and, with, those, the are repeated.

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